unmet dependancies when upgrading to 5.3

[daddy_fatsacks]

Hello All,

When I attempted to upgrade to 5.3 I encountered some dependency issues :

root@pve /root# apt-get update
Ign:1 http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease
Hit:2 http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian stretch Release
Hit:4 http://download.proxmox.com/debian stretch InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
root@pve /root# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  libpve-storage-perl pve-container pve-manager
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
root@pve /root# apt-get install libpve-storage-perl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libpve-storage-perl : Depends: pve-cluster (>= 5.0-32) but 5.0-30 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@pve /root# apt-get install pve-cluster
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 pve-cluster : Depends: perl (>= 5.24.1-3+deb9u5) but 5.24.1-3+deb9u4 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

it looks like the problem is perl, but I don't know how I got myself into this mess to begin with.

 

[tom]

Please check your /etc/apt/sources.list

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Downlo...Proxmox_Virtual_Environment_5.x_to_latest_5.3

 

[daddy_fatsacks]

hi Tom,

I checked that link and updated my sources. I was able to upgrade to 5.3 afterwards.


Thank you for your help.